I was catching up on some blog reading, and came across a post in a friend’s blog entitled “RIP Randy Pausch”. The blog post said, “You, sir, are a good pirate.” and included a youtube video.

I clicked on the video and the first thing I noticed was that it was an hour and 16 minutes long.

I’d never heard of Randy Pausch, and wasn’t sure I wanted to waste an hour of my day watching the video, but my friend’s comment about him being a “good pirate” intrigued me. So I started to watch it thinking I’d just watch the first few minutes and then move on to something else. As it turns out I watched the whole thing through to the end; I even stopped it at a few points to take notes.